I’m even getting
emails from “Your Novel” with the subject heading, “Please write me this
November.”
Every year, I
dutifully sign up, donate funds, go to write-ins and I get a lot done. But I
never win. Most often, I tend to write
short. A full-length novel comes in at 50K. I’ve turned in 52K and had a copy
editor suggest cuts in order to get it down to the required length. While
writing, I usually “finish” at 45K and then edit, smoothing out transitions,
flushing out descriptions and adding in those last 5K.
Some years, I’ve
signed up knowing I was shooting for a 30K novella. Although I finished it, I
still didn’t “win.” Well, officially. I completed the novella and got it
published so that definitely counts for something, right?
I’ve met some
local writers through the process, and had a blast hanging out with Kara
Lennox, Rob Preece and Tari Lynn Jewett at IHOP and a local grocery store with
our laptops. There’s nothing like 10 writers, clustered together working,
without talking, garnering attention. People stared.
Why not this year?
*shrugs shoulders* I fully support writers signing up, and working hard to
complete their novel. I’m taking a realistic approach, and know I have three
projects I’d like to finish in the next month:
1) The Vampire, The Witch & The Werewolf: A
Wolfe in the City – The manuscript is about 47K right now, and it needs to
be completed.
2) Second For
Men for Ellora’s Cave: The Quickie is more than halfway done, and could be
finished up within a week.
3) R&R for
Decadent Publishing: Need to polish a few areas, and get it back in. It’s been
on the burner for when the other two items were finished.
Plus, I have
another 1Night Stand rattling around in my brain. With the recent release of A Dance with Death, this character is
clamoring for a HEA.
So officially …
no NaNo for me. I’ll be cheering on my friends, and you can send me some good
thoughts for wrapping up my projects!
Louisa Bacio
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